News for hackers. Stuff that matters.

A comment on Yellowcake Shaped the West. Parent comment

Re:Yellowcake Shaped the West by DSingularity on Monday August 02, 2021 @08:56PM (#28044592)
AI based content suggestion trained through reinforcement to maximize ad revenues at the expense of human attention. Humanity will one day look back and say how the hell did we let Silicon Valley ruin the minds of an entire generation.
[ Parent | on HN ]
Re:Yellowcake Shaped the West by eloff on Monday August 02, 2021 @10:12PM (#28045006)
Yes, this is vastly underestimated. The harm greatly outweighs the piddly profits of the tech giants doing this.

Using AI to hack humans for maximizing ad revenue is so, so bad for society.

[ Parent | on HN ]
Re:Yellowcake Shaped the West by cardosof on Tuesday August 03, 2021 @12:09AM (#28045625)
This, and I wonder how we (as societies/countries) aren't aware of that. I know some high level people in ad tech and they couldn't care less, but I believe lots of average Joes would care much more about their online habits if they knew the long term impacts (which we don't fully understand, but there's already some bad sides).
[ Parent | on HN ]
Re:Yellowcake Shaped the West by Griffinsauce on Tuesday August 03, 2021 @04:22AM (#28046848)
> an entire generation

I think we're on ~3 generations and counting now and letting us reach that conclusion is against their interests.

[ Parent | on HN ]